It's over. Seventeen days of 17-hour days. You are ready to go home. You are tired. No matter how much you like the host city, by the end, it is always like a visit to someone's home that went a bit too long. The host city is a bit sick of you and you of them. You are tired of being yelled at and lied to for 2-1/2 weeks.
Nonetheless, these games

If you're looking for the next Team USA basketball coach, I nominate Jerry Sloan.
Doc Rivers will get support, rightfully, but Sloan will have more time to evalute, organize, etc.
Although there's a guy in Montana that wouldn't be bad either. I understand he might have developed a sudden interest in getting back into the game with the Dwight

If USC was its own country - and some have suggested that - it would have won more gold medals in the 2012 Olympids than Germany, among others.
Trojan athletes, past and present, had 12 golds. That would have ranked sixth among nations at the Olympics.
The 25 medals for USC would have ranked 11th.
USC athletes have won at least one gold in

[caption id="attachment_5927" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The view from Mike Schroeder's front row seats for the Olympic men's basketball final game between the United States and Spain. Photo by Mike Schroeder, Special to The Orange County Register"]

Showed up at Olympic Stadium three hours early to get a little work done and make sure I get a seat for tonight's Closing Ceremony.
As they say timing is everything. Just as I sat down The Who started their final run-through for tonight's performance. It was rocking! Even Rudisha-esque!
No sign of Keith however.
More news from the

The U.S. women's basketball team routed France, 86-50, Saturday, collecting their fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal and putting more distance between themselves and the rest of the world heading to Rio for the 2016 Games.
The Sparks' Candace Parker scored 21 points, including eight in a row during the game-changing run in the second quarter a

Usain Bolt anchored Jamaica to a world record-shattering victory in the 2012 Olympic Games 4x100-meter relay final at Olympic Stadium Saturday night.
Taking the baton just slightly behind American Ryan Bailey, Bolt powered down the homestretch, crossing the finish line in 36.84 for his third gold medal of the Lo

Pau Gasol opened every assessment of the Dwight Howard trade Friday by wishing Andrew Bynum well in Philadelphia.
"It's bittersweet because Andrew is a good friend," Gasol said after Spain beat Russia in the Olympic basketball semifinals. "A lot of emotions, these days, with the Olympics and now this news.
""But now we (the Lakers) can go out

As I have discussed in an earlier post, the London venue food is passable, making it a major upgrade from the wretched venue food that was served to the unfortunate fans in Beijing.
Getting dinner outside the venues is a logistical challenge though for reasons of time and distance. Most of the Olympic venues are in east London and most of the go